# Should it be more obvious that tags are tags?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-it-be-more-obvious-that-tags-are-tags/110759>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [3월 5, 2019, 4:59오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-it-be-more-obvious-that-tags-are-tags/110759 "2019-03-05T16:59:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)\
**Post date:** [3월 5, 2019, 9:26오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-it-be-more-obvious-that-tags-are-tags/110759/10 "2019-03-05T21:26:45Z")

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We use @ for both groups and individuals, as long as no collision can occur between tags and categories it’s probably good that they share the #. It would be worse to need to remember whether something was a tag or a category, when in many cases they’re almost interchangeable.

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